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Prosecutors seek 2.5 years for Hendra
The Jakarta Prosecutorâs Office on Wednesday demanded a two-and-a-half year prison term for Hendra Saputra, a defendant in a high-profile graft case implicating the son of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Syariefuddin Hasan
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he Jakarta Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday demanded a two-and-a-half year prison term for Hendra Saputra, a defendant in a high-profile graft case implicating the son of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Syariefuddin Hasan.
'We call on the panel of judges to find the defendant guilty of corruption and to order him to pay Rp 50 million [US$4,344] or serve another six months in prison,' said prosecutor Elly Supaini reading the sentence demand at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Wednesday.
Hendra, who is a high school dropout, was allegedly installed by Syarief's son, Riefan Avrian, as director of PT Imaji Media.
The company was set up to conceal Riefan's name to participate in a jumbotron tender for multimedia digital advertisement (Videotron), which was allegedly rigged by Syarief's office. Hendra was an office boy at another company owned by Riefan.
After months of denying the allegation, Riefan was named a suspect in the case last month.
Last week, he confessed that he was the mastermind in the scheme, saying that he had appointed Hendra as director of the company to get the project, but maintained that Hendra 'voluntarily' accepted his offer to become an Imaji director.
However, Hendra said that he was asked by Riefan to sign a document without knowing about its content.
Riefan made the confession during Hendra's trial last week after judges threatened to charge him with perjury.
